All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Responding to the comments made by the new SNP leader Humza Yousaf, when he told ITV News that he would ask the UK Government for a Section 30 Order “right away,” Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to the election of the new SNP leader Humza Yousaf, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Speaking as the SNP leadership election ends, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called for the Scottish Government to extend their three-month rail fare freeze for the rest of the year, ahead of the current short freeze expiring next week.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today called on the three candidates for SNP leader to declare an end to Scottish Government support for Heathrow expansion, declaring it incompatible with tackling the climate emergency.
Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie has today warned that support for teachers and pupils is being stripped out of schools, as he highlighted new figures showing that the number of additional support needs teachers has cratered
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
